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Both victims eventually identified Arthur Whitfield as the assailant. In 1982, he was convicted of one of the crimes and pled guilty to the second in order to receive a lighter sentence and have some of the charges dropped. DNA testing in 2004 proved that he was innocent of both crimes. The first victim was accosted as she got out of her car.
A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery and rape has been declared innocent and freed, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday. DNA testing helped exonerate ...
Among the evidence against Wilson was women's underwear and jewelry that was found at his residence, which the authorities theorized was taken by him after the murder. However, the items were never confirmed as coming from the Martz home. Wilson was charged with first-degree murder and, in order to avoid the death penalty, pleaded guilty. He ...
As of January 2022, 375 people previously convicted of serious crimes in the United States had been exonerated by DNA testing since 1989, 21 of whom had been sentenced to death. [13] [49] Almost all (99%) of the wrongful convictions were males, [50] [51] with minority groups constituting approximately 70% (61% African American and 8% Latino).
Marco Contreras was a free man once a judge in Southern California ruled him innocent of attempted murder of Jose Garcia n in 1996. Innocent man freed 20 years after being wrongfully convicted of ...
Theis was held on a parole detainer, awaiting sentencing on convictions of first-degree home invasion, larceny of vehicles and other crimes, according to the Morning Sun. A bedsheet was reportedly used. Jail or Agency: Isabella County Jail; State: Michigan; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/31/2016; Age at death: 36; Sources ...
Matthew Muller -- who pleaded guilty in the 2015 kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins -- was charged in connection with two other home invasions from 2009, the Santa Clara County ...
None of the hair, blood, or fingerprint samples collected at the crime scene were consistent with those of Ferguson [11] or Erickson, and no traces of the victim's blood were found in the vehicle that Ferguson was driving the night of the murder. [1] Ferguson was convicted of second-degree murder and robbery and sentenced to 40 years in prison ...